Eric Schmutz
Contact Info
Drop by my office (266 Korman) anytime. No appointment is
necessary.
To
be sure of finding me (I am not always in my office), you might
prefer to
@drexel.edu email
Eric.Jonathan.Schmutz to arrange a meeting time.
Address:
Mathematics Department
266 Korman Building
Drexel University
Philadelphia, 19104
Courses
Research
My research interests are in discrete mathematics, including
probabilistic
methods,
asymptotic
enumeration, and some topics in number theory.
- Selected papers.
- Part Products of S-Restrcted Compositions,
with Caroline Shapcott, to appear in AADM.
-
Period Lengths for Iterated Functions
Combinatorics, Probability, and
Computing 20,(2011), 289–298.
- Rational Points on the Unit Sphere
Centr.Eur.J.Math 6 (2008) 482-487.
-
The Expected Order of a Random
Unitary Matrix ,
Journal of Group Theory,
11 (4), 2008.
-
Splitting
Fields
for Characteristic Polynomials of Matrices with Entries in a Finite
Field,
Finite Fields Appl. 14(1) (2008), 250--257.
-
Limit distribution for the maximum
degree of a random recursive tree,
with
William
M.Y.Goh,
J. Comput. Appl. Math.
142 (1) (2002), 61--82.
- The
Number of Distinct Part Sizes in a
Random Partition ,
with William M.Y.Goh
, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Ser A. 69
(1995) 149-158.
-
How Random is the Characteristic
Polynomial of a Random Matrix?,
with Jennie C. Hansen, Mathematical Proceedings of the
Cambridge Philosophical Society 114(3) (1993),
507--515.
- Gap
Free Set Partitions ,
with William M.Y.Goh
Random Structures and Algorithms
3(1) (1992), 9--18.
-
Carmichaels Lambda Function
with Paul Erdos and Carl Pomerance,
Acta Arith. 58 (1991), no. 4, 363--385.
-
The Expected Order of a Random
Permutation
with William M.Y.Goh,
Bull.
London Math. Soc. 23(1) (1991), 34--42.